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Transient advertisements will be inserted at the rate of SI.OO per square of ten lines for three inser tions or less, but for every subsequent insertion, 25 cents per square will be charged in addition.— fable and figure woiK double price. Auditor's notices ten lines and under, SI.OO ; upwards often lines and under fifteen $1.50. Liberal reductions made to persons adveitising by the year. ovi9 in a I $o 11 r ti. _______ BY i. Paliikk. I. House? Freedom's sons! and burst the chains That bind your souls in drowsy slumber! While waking Power o'er you gains New strength in arms, as well as number : Shake off the links that hold you down Nor longer let delusion blind you ; Dash from his brow the despot's crown, And huil its fragments far behind you. Fling out your flag and let it float While ocean rolls its tide to ocean! Till Freedom s wildest mountain note i-liaii kindle all her sons' devotion! 11. Join hand in hand and circle 'round The blessed land that God has given , (Liardeyery sacred spot of ground As angels guard the gates of Heaveu ! From every height your flag's unfurled, In every battle tight beneath it, Until its glory lights the world And Peace with olive boughs shall wreath it. Fling out your flag and let it float While ocean rolls its tide to ocean ! Till Freedom's wildest mountain note Shall kindle all her sons' devotion 1 111. Kneel by the graves where heroes sleep Who ilierl lor Freedom'* Anf — While orphan sens and mothers weep, Swear to avenge each sainted martyr. Awake! arise! no' longer dream, But catch the spirit of the hour, And let your swords in triumph gleam Above each base usurper's power. Fling out your flag and let it float While ocean rolls its tide to ocean ! Til! Freedom's wildest mountain note Shall kindle all her sons' devotion IV. Then yet Columbia's star shall shine Above each grove and ancient altar ; And Freedom shall no longer pine, For ne'er again her hosts shall (alter. Aloft her flag shall float for aye, For nought on earth its folds shall sever, And though the staff be torn away, The colors still shall glow forever. Then raise your flag and let it float While ocean rolls its tide to ocean ! Till Freedom's wildest mountain note Shall kindle all her sons' devotion ! A MA EE COQUETTE, AND WHAT HE GOT BY IT. "Engaged to be married—real I}- engaged to ' married ! Goodness gracious! there's an a .ount of responsibility in the thing 1 never j earned ol before ! And such a giddy, reckless j .itle cieature as I've always been —how can 1 >er become worthy of such a noble fellow as ""barley Warren ? Oh! I must be vry demure : ittij stead)' now !" Thus mused little Cora Clifford, silling in the ink shadow of the rose-colorcd silken curtains >f her boudoir. The waxen camel ias were slili I learning in the golden curls around her btow, j ,nd the diamonds yet flashed on her lull white iroat. You might see a deep, rosy tint or. her ! fimp'ed cheek, and a radiance beneath Ihe ■ lowncast lids ol her glorious eyes, as if she was in a happy ciream. Ah ! no wonder that she forgot to lay aside the giitlering robe of lace and azure satin ; no wonder thai her liny fingers played mechani- j call) with I hat stray curl, and neglected to un- ! clasp bracelet and necklace ! For Cora had en trred an enchanted land that evening—in '.he j interval of the "German;" while they stood to- i gether in the cool conservatory, under the shad- 1 ow of orange blossoms and pure lilies, Charley i Warren had (old her that he loved her better j than any one else in the wide world. And the ; •crimson fire had burned in her cheek until the j ted rose at her bosom was pale beside it. And somehow her head had drooped ujion his stalely breast, and he had captured her little white trembling hand—and—and she couldn't remem- i tier eiactly how it happened, only she was quite sure that they were engaged to be mar ried ! And the laid away the shining gems, and pailed back he: gold bright hair, and when the sieep-aogel sprinkled his balmy incense on her brow, there we.e tears on her pillow of down, oh ! such happy, happy, tears ! No chance for the other whiskered exquisites now They ail had to stand aside from Charley Warren's triumphal path. Dick Ainsiie, Ches ter Howard, Frank Irwin, even the magnificent St. Au!yn,ju>t from Italy, who mowed down lerrtiniue hearts just as a reaper mows down ned'J'Sf grass, acknowledged with sighs fhat ! the belle ot the season had no more thought for them. No matter how like minature horses j their moustaches were trained—no matter how carefully their perfumed curls were arranged i no matter how like Apollo himself they stalked ! into ballioorns and saloons—the beautiful Miss Clifford deigned them merely a cool bow, and reserved all her slight glances and smiles lor that wretch of a Warren ! Men are conceited creatures at best—it doesn't take much to spoil them, and Charley Warren, though as noble a specimen of the genus homo as one often meets, began, after a while really to fancy himself a little more fascinating than anything else that ever wore pantaloons. 'Else,' he argued, "why did Cora Clifford, lor whose slightest smile the whole masculine world was s-ghing, prefer him to ali their bewitching ar ray?" Cora stood in the dressing-room at Mrs. Arch er's, arranging a wreath of French rosebuds in the folds ot her lovely hair. She was a little late, this evening, and Warren was patiently waiting her re-appearance. She was unusually beautiful to-night, and very well she knew it ■ as she stood before the mirror. The string of her little satin slipper broke, | just as she reached the door, and she stopped to fasten it. As fortune would have if, the door was ajar, and the voices from without reached | her eat. "She's really superb—a regular Boston beau ty. Splendid—Juuo-like, you know!" I "Ah ?" and Warren's tone was decidedly in different. i "I merely mentioned it as an abstract fact," returned Dick Ainslie, in a piqued manner, "of j course we all know that it wouldn't do lor you : to take any notice of her." "VVhal do you mean," said Charley, rather sharply. "Nothing—only that as you have already won the loveliest creature in New York, you've no right to enter the lists again." " 1 suppose I may admire a pretty woman when I see her, at least?" queried Warren. "Not if you're wise. A girl like Miss Clif ford, accustomed to being worshipped with all j the soul ot her admirers, won't endure a divi ded homage. Don't try any perilous experi j ments, Warren !" "I can say ol Cora, once won, won forever," returned Warren, with a dignified air, "and it is a mistaken idea, that when you are engaged to a lady you are thenceforth to give up all oth > er female society." "Don't know anything about that," said Dick, provoking!)*, "but this 1 do 3ay —once com mence flirtiug with other women, and Cora wilt ••Bare up." "And / say," exclaimed Charley, in an ex -1 Cited tone, "that Cora loves me too well to ques ; t on lor an instant the propriety of anything I may choose to do or say. And furthermore, I j wish you distinctly to understand that I am tied ;to no woman's apron string. lam a free agent, • and shall flitt, as you term it, just as much as I * please !" Cora turned away from the door with burn | ing cheeks and flashing eyes. Her first emotion was that of anger and scorn—her second of pas sionate grief. What would she not have given for the luxury of a "good cry," at home in her , owu chamber ? If she had not loved Charley ; Warren so dearly, these foolish words would not have so agitated her. And after ali, she reflected, they were only foolish words—vain boasts, uttered when he was stung by Ainslie's insinuating taunts —she knew his heart was loy al and ttue ! But then to speak of her in that ' manner—it made her spirited blood leap up in i her veins—Charley needed a good lesson— and he should hove it ! She rose and once more smoothing down her , sunny curls, joined the unconscious couple who were still talking in the passage, and they en tered the ball-room together. At the conclusion of the first polka, as the radiant little beauty sat on a low ottoman, sur rounded as usual by a crowd of admirers, a buzz and a hum at the door announced the arrival of the new star, and in a minute Dick Ainslie came up to Warren. "Come, Charley, I want to introduce you to that charming Boston novelty, Miss Howe. She has just come in, and I want her to form as fa vorable an impression as possible of our New York beaux. Have I your permission, Miss Clifford ?" "O, by all means!" said Cora, smiling her brightest smiles, as she caught the quick, hurri ed glances which passed between them, "I put him entirely under your charge, Mr. Ainslie. Tray, Captain St. Aulyn, clasp this bracelet !" and as the two gentlemen walked away, she held up her round white arm to the fascinating Captain who had been leaning against the wall in a disconsolate manner. He came eagerly forward to perlorm the service, and a thrill pas sed through every nerve in his body as he touch ed the blue veined wrist. Cora spoke so cor dially to him that he plucked up courage to ask her if she was engaged lor the next dance. She wasn't—and in half an hour Capt. St. Aulyn was in such a state of delighted bewilderment that he didn't know whether the lovely crea ture hanging on his arm was a human moital in gold colored silk, or a glorified cloud of mist and sunshine—he was only conscious ola pair of magnificent violet eyes shining on him through long drooping lashes. Ah ! Captain, beware ! women are proverbially deceitful, and you've walked into the snare with your eyes wide open ! Miss Howe was a sallow, dark-eyed girl, wilh a souppon of rouge on her olive cheek, and a bold flippant way—and Charley heartily wish ed himseil back by Cora's side, but Dick looked so provokingly calm and incredulous that he talked with her just to prove that he was "a fiee agent." Miss Howe was "dying" to visit the Dusseldorf, and Charley ostentatiously invi ted her to accompany him thither the next morning. Ainslie slightly elevated his eye brows, and Charley begged leave to take be,-to BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAT MORNING, DECEMBER, 20,1861. hear Frezzolini the next evening ! Of course she acceded to all these propositions. Charley bad a faint idea, at the end of the ball, that he had been "going it" rather fast, but Cora's per fectly natural manner as they rode home to gether, re-assured him. She was in charming ! spirits—"never had enjoyed herself better"— , so Warren concluded that he was entirely sal", j The whole of the next day was immolated . at the shrine of Miss Howe, by the faithless ! cavalier; he nad not intended it, and felt deci dedly guilty, but under the circumstances il could not be helped. Not until the day alter did he see Cora. Then, slinking up the steps of her residence, he inquired tor Miss Clifford. She was at home, and he found her reclining on a sofa, 3eeply absorbed in reading. Just as lovely as a dream ! Talk about your blace, high featured Miss Howe! What a feint, j rosy shadow there was on the bright lips, what j a blue, transparent light in the liquid eyes ! He i felt as if he could have knelt down to worship her'gloi ious beauty, as he came forward fo claim a smile. Good Jupiter! how coolly she extended her little jeweled hand, without raising her eye* from i he book ! "There, sit down, Chat ley, till I've finished the chapter. Such a love of a book— Lamar j line—you know—his sweet reminiscences.— j Wait, and don't disturb me, there's a good fel low-!" Charley sat down, completely confounded, j "1 don't approve of Lamartine," he com -1 mented. "Piay where did you get the book !" i "Captaiu St. Aulyn lent it to me. Do hush, | Charley." j Charley fidgeted on his chair, j "What have you been doing (o your hair, Cora ? It's all twisted back, isn't it ?—not be coming, I should say." "Oh, I dressed it so to please Captain St. Au lyn." "Has he been here, this morning?" queried the lover, with a gathering frown. "Yes, and he says I look exactly like the 1 Empress Eugenie. I had Fanny in to dress it 1 exactly to his taste, ala Parissienne. Oh, he's ; so amusing !" "Ahem—but / don't like the style at all!" '•Don't you ? Well, do keep 3till, and give me a chance to read a moment." Charley relapsed ioto a gloomy silence, but : his brow was dark and overcast. What busi i ness had St. Aulyn dictating to his affianced j wife. He would like to kick St. Aulyn down | stairs! A ring at the door bell, and a whisper from, in tier mlßtres's ear. Op started G'ora. i "My bonnet and mantle, Fanny—quick. , There—fasten the collar—and now my parasol. . Charley, you'll excuse me, I know; but a pre vious engagement—Captain St. Aulyn." "But Cora—" "rfu revoir," and before he could speak lur ther the little beauty had flitted down stairs with i a parting wave of the hand. Warrea folded j his arms lightly across his breast, and walking i grimly to the window, had the satisfaction ot | seeing Cora seated beside the smiling St. Aulyn. in his dashing turn out, and ol witnessing their triumphant departure ! Poor Charley! he turned pale and red with angry emotion. Never had Cora treated him so before—never had she evinced the least ten ! dency to coquetry, and he knew not what I course to pursue. Il he had not felt so utterly | wretched, he would have proceeded stiaight to ! M iss Howe, but be was too far gone for that, and he bowed his bead upon bis hands in bitter rtflection. What could it mean? He would ! horsewhip St. Aulyn—he would. No, he wouldn't, either; for hadn't he just been play ing exactly the same game with Miss Howe? O, conscience, what a remorseless accuser thou art ! Thai evening he sent an excuse to Miss Howe, whom he had volunteered to take to Wallack's,: and turned his footsteps again towards the resi dence ol his fiancee. Fann) was in the hall, chatting with John, the huge lootman. "Miss Cora wa.s gone to the opera, with Cap tain St. Aulyn." The maid delivered this speech with a half suppressed titter. Warren colored indignantly. "I wiil come in and wait," be said, firmly. Fanny showed him into the drawing room. ! Lamar'.ine was lying on the tabiu, with all the love passages marked in the captain's hand wri- | ting. The leader may imagine what kind of an evening Warren passed. Towards midnight the Captain's voice was heard, bidding Miss Clifford "good night!" and j promising to call "early to-morrow morning," , and the next moment the little coquette tripped I in, all lace and plumes and jewels. But what a pale, haggard lace met her glance ! Spite ot herself, she started back. "Why, Charley!" "Cora!" said Warren, "have pity upon me. i What have 1 done to merit this conduct ?" "Good gracious, Charley, I don't know what you mean !" "This strange indifference to my feelings— ; this deliberate coquetting with that scoundrel,] St. Aulyn. Cora, I must have some explana-' tion !" Cora sat down on the sofa by his side, and placed her lily baud on bis trembling arm. "Charley, dear, don't be so ferocious. All I want is, to have you understand that I am tied to no man's dickey-string—that I am a free a genl, and shall flirt just as much as 1 please." Every drop ot blood in Charley's system seemed* to have concentrated in his burning lace. He recognized his own foolish boast. "It's a mistaken idea," continued the unmer ciful Cora, "that when you are engaged to a gentleman you are thenceforth to give up all oth*r masculine\ociety." Warren nndeistood it all in an instant. Good heavens, what a relief it was ! His heart bound ed up from the soles of bis boots as light as a feather ! "Cora, you darling little eaves-dropper!" Freedom of Thought and Opinion. He caught her in his arms, smothering her musical laughter with a succession of very love like kisses, aud listened in smiling silence while she related the whole occurrence. He was bitterly mortified, and dpeply indig nant at himself ; but oh, it was sucfi a relinf to know that Cora's heart was alt his own. He forgave her the little stratagem ; he forgave her | everything. Tar Jon my foolish words, dear Cora. I re- I gret them more than you can ever imagine. I am sick of Miss Howe, and Dick Ainslie, too. There is only one woman in the world for whose smile I care a fig, and she shall be my pride i and care henceforth. Have 1 your forgiveness, I darling ?" j She laid her soft velvet cheek against his ' shaggy whiskers, and put her fingers on his lips. ; "Hush, Charley; not another word. Put j that sentimental trash on the fire, please, and ring the bell." Fanny answered the sound. "I'm not at home to-morrow, when Captain St. Aulyn calls—do you understand?" "Yes, ma'am;" and Fanny vanished. Cora went to the mirror, and drawing out one or two little diamond-headed arrows, shook the rich luxuriance of her golden hair about her lace. In an instant the horrible Eugenie twist was gone—she was his own radiant, sunny-browed Cora once more. "There's one comfort," she said, pausing, with a mass of shining hair still in her hand ; "1 have completely cured you of coquetry, haven't I, Charley?" The reply is not chronicled, but we think T. was satisfactory. MOM WASHINGTON. ~~ THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS-FIRST SES SION. SENATE.—Messrs. Fessenden and Sumner j presented petitions for the emancipation of the 1 blacks under the war power. Mr. Sumner (Mass.) presented the petition ot' Francis A. Ti adway, setting forth that he had sometime ago presented a complaint to the Su preme Court against Jeff. Davis and others, but i was told that they were improper papers. He afterwards presented the complaint to a magis- ; '.rates' court, but to no effect. The matter was > referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. j Mr. Foot (Vt.) offered a resolution that Waldo j P. Johnson, by sympathizing and participating j iti the rebellion against the United States, had ' guilty of conduct incompatible with bis j us a Senator or ii/e Unit** iiot.-., ; tfrat he therefore be expelled from the Senate joftheUoited States. Laid over. Mr. Wilson (Mass.) introduced a joint reso lution to provide for the payment of commis ; sioners appointed to investigate the claims a ' gainst the Western Military Department. .Re ferred to the Committee on Fiuance. ; Mr. Harlan (Iowa) introduced a bill to au thorize the President to acquire territory for the settlement ot persons of African descent. , Referred to the Committee on Public Lands. Mr. Wilson introduced a bill for the reorgan ization of the Military Department of the army. [ Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Hale (N. H.) called up the resolution he offered yesterday, tDat the Committee oc the Judiciary be instructed to inuuire into the e.x pendiency ol abolishing the present judicial system ot the United States, and establishing another in pursuance of the Constitution. The resolution was agreed to. Mr. Nesmith (Oregon) need a bill to provide for the protection of overland emi grants to California and Oregon. Referred to the Committee on Territories. Mr. Harris (N. Y.) introduced a hill relative to the sale of spirituous liquors in the District of Columbia. The bill is designed to render more opeiative the bill passed last summer, and pro vides (or trial by any Justice of the peace. Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Chandler (Mich.) announced the death of the Hon. Kiogsley S. Bingham, late Senator from Michigao, and gave a brief sketch of the life of the late Senator. Mr. Clark (N. J.) spoke of the dead Senator as a conscientious man, whose true merits were known only to his friends. He was always true to his country and firm and unwavering in the discharge of his duty. Mr. Sumner (Mass.) paid a tribute to the worth and excellence of the decased Senator, vrho was always firm for the right and against oppression and wrong. He was one of those beautiful natures where God had joined the mildest manners to the bravest mind. He was always opposed to slavery, and any compromise with evil. Such a nature can be rllspared at such an hour as the present though he still lives by example. Those who knew him here and the Slate that loved him well will cherish his memory with affectionate pride. The resolution of respect was agreed to and the Senate adjourned. HOUSE.—Mr. Roscoe Conkling (\. Y.) of ferred a resolution, which was adopted, request ing the Attorney General to repott his views as to the means of obtaining a retrocession of that portion of Virginia formly belonging to the District of Columbia. Mr. Potter,.(Wis.,) from the Committee on Public Lands reported a bill providing home steads to actual settlers, and providing a bounty for soldiers n lieu of grants of public lands.— He explained that the homestead feature of this bill was heretofore passed, but there is an addi tion that all soldiers, marines and seamen tball be entitled to the provisions of this act. It contains a section giving a bounty of S3O to the three months' volunteers. The further consideration of the bill was post poned till Wednesday next. The House concurred in the resolution from the Senate, for a joint committee to inquire in to the conduct of the present war, with power to send for persons and papers. Mr. Pendleton (Ohio) moved that the nemo- I rial of Howard Gatchell and Davis be referred back to the Committee on the Judiciary, with instructions declaring that Congress alone had power under the Constitution to suspend the priv ilege of the wr:t of habeas corpus. That the exercise of that power by any other department of the Government is a usurpation, and danger ous to public liberty. That the persons above named be delivered to the Marshal to the end that they may be indicted with the right of speedy trial, if there be probable cause for such proceedings. He spoke at length on this subject saying, that those gentlemen were members of the Board of Police for the city of Baltimore, and on the first of July last, at the dead hour of night, were arrested by order of the military authorities, and without charges beiug prefer red against them were conveyed as prisoners to Fort M'Hcary. They ask that Congress may examine into the question, or that they may be heard before a judicial tribunal, and yet his (Mr. Pendleton's) colleagues in the Committee on '.he Judicary could fiud no more fitting res ponse to the memorial than that it should lie unanswered ou the iniffe. The question here presented vas as to the legality of their present punishment, which he denied. The meanest criminal, even is within the reach of the application of the writ of habeas corpus t and this right his never been denied by my Executive until now. Mr. Pendleton S3id in the course of his argu ment, that when the Constitution was framed tbeiawas no principle mora incontrovertible than that parliament Moot? could suspend the Writ of habeas orpus. The revolution w;s a protest -gainst usurpation, and il could not be believed that our foreiathers, who had so ear nestly engaged in securing personal liberty, would contract the bounds of freedom, and tn ' iarg? t!:? bounds of executive por/er. If the ! President can suspend ot u provision of the | Constitution he can suspend them ali, and re ! Juce this nation to the condition of slaves by ; changing the theory of the Government. Any nation willing to adopt this theory is so lost to a manly sense of" independence and dignity, and .o a just consciousness of their courage and duty of defending the Government, that the yoke is u fit emblem and a just token of their degra dation. If this theory shall be endorsed the precedent will give authority in the future to ambitious :n-n until public virtue will be des troyed, the natiouai character tare'ehed and ; love o! liberty destroyed, and the co intry be come * prey to any tyrant. One successful invasion ot any rigftt uewfeate, its value, and weakens the means ot a rightful resistance.— No oue should listen to the doctrine of State necessity, the history of which is written on the wreck of public liberty. Mr. Bingham (Ohio) replied that all his col- Irsyue had jusi said or could say, had been fully 2nd sattslactorily answered by the argu ment or the Attorney General, heretofore sub mitted. Notwithstanding !.. ability ol his colleague, he (Mr. Pendleton) had not been able to disguise the fact that the titne had come which was contemplated by the words of the Constitution tor the suspending of the writ of htP:us corpus. Il was important that some power shouid do so. If this be conceded, then bis colleague's argument has destroyed itself. Il implied a censure on the House in not dis charging the duty long ago, as required by the oath which tbey had ali taken to support the Constitution. Tits colleague's position was that Congress aione cau suspend (his writ, while consenting that the time has come for its suspension. On motion of Mr. Bingham the whole sub ject was laid on the table by a vote of 108 years, against 28 nays. A message was received from the Senate, announcing the death ot Senator Bingham, of Michigan. Eulogies on the character of the decec-ed were delivered oy Messrs. Beaman, Trowbridge and Granger, of Michigan, Sedg wick, of New York, and Ashley, of Ohio. The ■ usual resolutions of respect were then passed j and the House adjourned. TELEGRAPHICALLY DRUNK. A citizen ot St. Louts being brought before a magistrate on a charge of drunkenness, the fol lowing dialogue took place; Judge—"What is the charge against this in dividual!" Policeman—"Getting drunk; completely drunk attempting to destroy private property,and col lecting a crowd around him." Mr. Ei skine, (rising painfully) "That's a mis take, a calumny beyond description, I was not drunk, shall not and will not be drunk. I nev er drink anything but water; ask Thompson. In order to prove to you I have my senses per fectly, 1 will proceed to sing the Star-Spangled Banner without missing a note. Got a piano up here?" The Judge—"Poor luna'ic?" Mr. Erskine —"Indeed, that's more'n likely. Beading the newspapers has brought me into this state. I like to know the war news. 1 read all dispatches painted on the subject. That's the way I lost my reason. The second edition contradicts the first; the third contra dicts that again,and so on. You believe sou know and you don't know any thing. You learn all at once that what happened yesterday didn't happen yesterday, but issuing to happen 10-motrow. That's enough to shatter the best organized intellect. It produces the effect of mixing your liquor —you go swallowing, with out knowing how much you lake." Judge—"So you have been mixing your li quor then ?" Mr. Er3kine—" No! I've mixed my despatch es. Oh ! Telegraph ! Telegraph !—you're my ruin !" Notwithstanding this jogenious system of de fence Mr. Erskine was sent to work off bis whiskey at the station house. On his way thither be promised the police officer not to I read any more newspapers, and above all; no I more despatches front lb* wt of war whole hi:K a B 4. II)e Qc\) oolmasttr 2lbroai>. EDITED BY SIMON SYNTAX, ESQ. [£P"Frien<is of education who wish to enlighten tne public on the subject of teaching the "young idea how to shoot," are respectfully requested to send communications to the above, care of "Bed ford Gazette." SCHOOL MATTERS- The State Superintendent has decided that il a Teacher is not paid when his salary is due, he can obtain judgement for if, and hare exe cution in the mode pointed out by the school law. It the non-payment was owing to no fault of the Director* ; the expenses of the suit will be placed on the District; il due to their negligence, on the members ol the Board, in dividually. A County Superintendent is bound to make out the Teacher's certificate immediately after the close ol his examination. Children cannot be excluded from school be cause their parents have not paid their school tax- A School Board has the right lo direct a Teacher to lock the dobr of the school room 10 or 15 minutes after the exact hour at which the c*:erciscs regularly commence, and not to admit scholars who come after that period.— This plan is intended to insure more regularity in attendance, and promote the oider and inter est of the schools. The above are among the latest decisions ol the State Superintendent. " Ignorance and superstition, the tyrants which the teaches enlist to exterminate—those twin relics of the dark'ages S. S.— [Bed ford Gazette, Nov. 29. Mr. Simon Syntax, who has written many excellent suggestions on education, has ceitain ly, without his usual carefulness, penned the last line of the above paragraph. Has he, in tha balance of justice, weighed what "the dark ages" have clone for the noble cause of educa tion, according to their circumstances ? The art of printing was then unknowu. How could the people of "the middle ages" do more than they have done, viz: transcribe and hand down to us the ancient classics? You might as well blame those ages for slow locomotion, as for a want of general education. Neither steam pow er nor printing was iben and, there fore, the charges of ignorance and superstition fall pointless at those times. Considering the destruction of the Roman Empire by the Bar barians, in the sth century, the middle ages, or as they are styled by thoughtlessness and lolly, the "dark ages," have done pretty well, in the cause of knowledge and education. In what ages, pray, were the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford founded ? Of what age was Alfred, the immortal author of trial by jury, and Al cuin "the proptgator of education," as one of England's best hislorians styles him, "from the Gallic Alps to the banks of the Loire, the Rhine and the Elbe." Great as is our zeal lor education and its re sult, useful knowledge, we should be generous and truthful towards the past. As we are soon, in our town, to hare a meeting of teachers, it is to be hoped, .that they will show respect to their proper mission, by a due regard to what | has been done, in preceding remote times, in ! the important business of education. It is to be expected, that from so respectable a body of public enlig'ateners, we will not hear any school-boy declamation, but wise and whole some views, on all important subjects which they meet together to discuss. VERAX. We freely insert the above communication in our column. We are perfectly willing that all sides shall be heard. W hen we penned the line alluded to in the above, we had no intention of detracting anything from the credit to which any age is entitled for that which it has handed down to posterity for the "noble cause of edu cation, according to its circumstances." When we spoke of ignorance and supersti tion as being twin relics of the dark ages, we meant the latter in the general acceptation of the term by the civilised world. We claim no infallibility ; and it we have not weighed the subject evenly in the balance oi justice, we are open to conviction at ail times. We have all confidence that the "body of public enlighteners" which will soon meet !a this place, will do ample justice to eveiy age for what it has done for the cause in which its members are engaged. We feel grateful for the commending allusion which the writer makes to our humble efforts lor the cause of education, and only hope that we have merited it. As we are greatly in fa | vor of the dissemination of Iruih, at all times,- we hope that "Ferajp" will soon again favor our column with his communications. S. S. By Teachers of Bedford county I fail not to be present at the teachers' convention, which meets at Bedford, between Christmas and N*W -Fesr. Fou should sll bo ttw, VJL. 5. NB. 20.
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